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...noble sacrifice to save the lives of others, including that of his infant son precisely as he makes his way down the birth canal. The next time we see young Jim - in an energetic Spielberg-influenced sequence - he's a bratty Iowa farm boy of about 11, stealing a car and fulfilling every stereotype of a kid lacking a proper father-figure (his mother is "off-planet"). Flash forward another decade and Kirk (Chris Pine) is a townie, living in the shadow of a Starfleet campus, which looms over the cornfields like a scarily large silo. He's still...
...example, 31% said they were using their refund to pay credit card debt - up from 17% a year ago. The percentage using their refund to pay utility bills and rent or their mortgage has roughly doubled too. A slightly greater number say they will splurge on a new car (5%) or vacation (11%). (See 10 smart ways to use your tax refund...
...Chapter 11 of one of its auto companies, particularly the one that is the smallest of the three. But the consumer will almost certainly be forced psychologically, if GM fails as well, to purchase automobiles only from companies which are viewed as financially stable. That means that foreign car companies will have an even greater advantage than they do now. Chrysler lost 48% of its sales in April compared with the same month as last year. Domestic sales dropped 34% for the entire industry. It is probable that concerns about Chrysler's survival made potential customers anxious and contributed...
...There are other practical problems that make a government-imposed Chapter 11 on GM much more troublesome than Chrysler's. The most financially pressing of these are the country's auto parts suppliers. They are facing extended plant closings at all three of the car companies and the bankruptcy filing of Chrysler. Pushing GM into court and risking an extended fight could cut the flow of orders to suppliers by enough that it would ruin a large number of the businesses. These businesses supply the assembly lines of foreign and domestic car manufacturing facilities around the country. The suspension...
...start looking at the sector not just as a symbol of the frothy good times - but as a way to get economies back on track. "What are governments trying to do in a recession? They're trying to create jobs," Lipman says. "They say, 'Let's bail out the car manufacturers, let's do something about the banks,' and they forget about the major opportunity they have with the travel sector...